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Max Boot: Until now, I have generally been reluctant to label Donald Trump the worst president in U.S. history. As a historian, I know how important it is to allow the passage of time to gain a sense of perspective. Some presidents who seemed awful to contemporaries (Harry S. Truman) or simply lackluster (Dwight D. Eisenhower, George H.W. Bush) look much better in retrospect. Others, such as Thomas Jefferson and Woodrow Wilson, dont look as good as they once did.
So I have written, as I did on March 12, that Trump is the worst president in modern times not of all time. That left open the possibility that James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Franklin Pierce, Warren Harding or some other nonentity would be judged more harshly. But in the past month, we have seen enough to take away the qualifier in modern times. With his catastrophic mishandling of the coronavirus, Trump has established himself as the worst president in U.S. history.
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sandensea
(21,636 posts)DonaldsRump
(7,715 posts)for the W v. Trump debate (FWIW, they are both truly awful):
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)sandensea
(21,636 posts)Dubya definitely had a lot of that same faux-populist shamelessness that so typifies Cheeto - except his was Southern, rather than Yankee, shamelessness.
Stuart G
(38,431 posts)Yes, I finally have in my life viewed someone worse than ....Tricky Dick Nixon
gibraltar72
(7,506 posts)sandensea
(21,636 posts)And, with billions in corporate and Wall Street (plus foreign) support, actually get him elected.